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1043149

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Diabetes: Health Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to increase attendance at diabetes education programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	209753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS England invested over £10 million of transformation funding in 2017/18 and a similar amount in 2018/19 to provide additional structured education places in 137 clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2009/10, there has been an almost 70% increase in people recorded as being referred to structured education when newly diagnosed with diabetes, designed to help them manage their condition in the long term.</p><p> </p><p>The Department, NHS England and Diabetes UK are working on ways to further improve the take up of structured education by looking at greater diversity of provision through digital and web-based approaches.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 209786 question first answered 23/01/2019 16:19:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1043151

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Diabetes: Health Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people attended diabetes education programmes in each clinical commissioning group area in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	209754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2019 16:17:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1043172

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Diabetes: Health Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to increase attendance at diabetes education programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	209786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS England invested over £10 million of transformation funding in 2017/18 and a similar amount in 2018/19 to provide additional structured education places in 137 clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2009/10, there has been an almost 70% increase in people recorded as being referred to structured education when newly diagnosed with diabetes, designed to help them manage their condition in the long term.</p><p> </p><p>The Department, NHS England and Diabetes UK are working on ways to further improve the take up of structured education by looking at greater diversity of provision through digital and web-based approaches.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 209753 question first answered 23/01/2019 16:19:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1043003

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Primary Care Networks: General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices in England are (a) a member and (b) not a member of a primary care network.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	209792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 209793 question first answered 22/01/2019 17:22:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1043004

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Primary Care Networks: General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list all GP practices in England and the primary care network they are a member of.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	209793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 209792 question first answered 22/01/2019 17:22:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1043088

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to increase the uptake of flu vaccinations for primary-aged school children in Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	209760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>A flu vaccination target of at least 65% has been set out in the annual flu letter for school age children in the 2018/19 flu season. The most recently published figures, as of 20 November 2018, show that Lancashire was on the way to achieving this and above the national average.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) has worked in partnership with NHS England to promote the ‘Help Us Help You’ campaign to encourage flu vaccination in England. The flu vaccination campaign is targeted at children, pregnant women, and those with long term health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>PHE undertakes proactive media activity to promote flu vaccination during the vaccination period. This season the media campaign was launched on 8 October 2018 and ran until 31 October and consisted of television, radio and social media advertising supported by public relations, digital search and partnership activity.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2019 16:16:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1043152

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Opioids: Prescriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which 10 local authority areas had the highest rates of NHS opoid drug prescriptions in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	209774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/01/2019 17:21:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1043153

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Lyme Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to (a) reduce the incidence of Lyme disease and (b) increase awareness of that disease.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	209775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The GOV.UK and NHS websites provide information to the public on the recognition of Lyme disease, tick awareness and the prevention of tick bites. This is available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/lyme-disease-guidance-data-and-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/lyme-disease-guidance-data-and-analysis</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Lyme-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Lyme-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) holds regular training days for general practitioners (GPs), and works with external organisations and charities to promote public awareness and training for GPs. PHE operates a tick surveillance system to identify tick distribution across England. PHE has been encouraging local authorities and park authorities to develop local public health material regarding tick risks and dealing with bites.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/01/2019 17:18:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1043170

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the current time interval between initial screening and invitation for the next screening at Central and East London Breast Screening Service; and what that interval was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	209738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>In April 2018, the Royal Free Hospital took over the service from Barts Health NHS Trust and administers call/recall services across all six London units, and provides screening for both Royal Free and Central London Breast Screening Service. From December 2013 to April 2016, the service, hosted by the previous service provider Barts Health NHS Trust, was in recovery with external management support.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Breast Screening Programme minimum standard is that 90% of women should be re-invited within 36 months of their previous screen.</p><p> </p><p>The Central and East London Breast Screening Service currently has an agreed recovery plan to address the issues, which is monitored on a monthly basis and is on track to recover the time interval between initial screening and invitation for next screening (round-length) by September 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The round-length for Central and East London Breast Screening Service at the end of 2018 was 46.95% of eligible women being re-invited within 36 months of their previous screen. This is due to a lack of screening radiographers within the service, however, the Royal Free has an ongoing recruitment plan in place as part of its service recovery plan, and has successfully recruited the equivalent of two whole time equivalent screening radiographers.</p><p> </p><p>The Central and East London Breast Screening Service is currently inviting 3,000 women per month, which is the normal monthly invitation rate for the service for the past three years, and shows a significant increase on the figures for April 2018 where 1,100 women were invited.</p><p> </p><p>Public Heath England is supporting key stakeholders including Health Education England, the Royal College of Radiologists, and the Society and College of Radiographers to assist in workforce recruitment and retention of radiographers and radiologists.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last six years round-length has fluctuated within the service as shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>36 Month Round- length (% of women re-invited within 36 months)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>30.94%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>54.11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>96.89%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>88.36%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>46.95%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/01/2019 17:20:22 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms